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- Birth nameThomas Michael Disch
- Thomas M. Disch was born on February 2, 1940 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for The Brave Little Toaster (1987), Miami Vice (1984) and Come to Venus Melancholy (1995). He died on July 4, 2008 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Collaborated with John Thomas Sladek (1937-2000) as "Cassandra Knye" on a Gothic romance, "The House that Fear Built", and as "Thom Demijohn" on the thriller novel "Black Alice".
- Author of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction.
- His play 'The Cardinal Detoxes' (1990) was denounced by the Catholic Church.
- Was called by Newsweek magazine "the most formidably gifted unfamous American writer."
- Some sources erroneously credit Disch with creating the 1960s TV classic "Prisoner, The" (1967), as Disch wrote the first original novel based upon the series.
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